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STC Ventures

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 1.55
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Fashion
  • E-Commerce
  • Price Comparison
  • Professional Services
  • Venture Capital
Summary

STC Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Dubai. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in United Arab Emirates.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Advertising, Public Transportation. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Careem Networks, Scality, DT One.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the STC Ventures, startups are often financed by Wamda Capital, Dtec Ventures, Aslanoba Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wamda Capital, Iris Capital, Dtec Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wamda Capital, Lumia Capital, Endure Capital.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this STC Ventures performs on 10 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nile Secure

$175M01 Aug 2023 San Jose, California, United States

yallacompare

Finance
FinTech
Insurance
Price Comparison
Professional Services
Venture Capital
$8M06 Jan 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

yallacompare

Finance
FinTech
Insurance
Price Comparison
Professional Services
Venture Capital
$3M24 May 2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Careem

Customer Service
Logistics
Public Transportation
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$60M10 Nov 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Aquto

Digital Media
Mobile Advertising
Telecommunications
Wireless
$8M07 Oct 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

yallacompare

Finance
FinTech
Insurance
Price Comparison
Professional Services
Venture Capital
$3M13 Sep 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Gengo

Crowdsourcing
Developer APIs
Language Learning
$5M21 Apr 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

Mobile
Mobile Payments
$3M23 Mar 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Modanisa

E-Commerce
Fashion
Women's
$5M02 Mar 2015 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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Total investments 17
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 1.55
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nile Secure

$175M01 Aug 2023 San Jose, California, United States

yallacompare

Finance
FinTech
Insurance
Price Comparison
Professional Services
Venture Capital
$8M06 Jan 2019 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

yallacompare

Finance
FinTech
Insurance
Price Comparison
Professional Services
Venture Capital
$3M24 May 2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Careem

Customer Service
Logistics
Public Transportation
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$60M10 Nov 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Aquto

Digital Media
Mobile Advertising
Telecommunications
Wireless
$8M07 Oct 2015 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

yallacompare

Finance
FinTech
Insurance
Price Comparison
Professional Services
Venture Capital
$3M13 Sep 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Gengo

Crowdsourcing
Developer APIs
Language Learning
$5M21 Apr 2015 Chiyoda, Japan

Mobile
Mobile Payments
$3M23 Mar 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Modanisa

E-Commerce
Fashion
Women's
$5M02 Mar 2015 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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